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Why sommeliers love a grab bag of wines

28/02/2018 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Many – most? – of us tend to repeat certain meals at home and we know what we like to drink with them – and now and again we try something a bit different. But home is about comfort and coziness, while dining out is about splashing out socially and emotionally, whether or not you […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, News Tagged With: Chasselas, Domaine des Curiales, Domaine des Landions, Emeline Zufferey, Gamaret, Gamay, GaultMillau, Geoffrey Bentrari, Gerard Besse, Javet&Javet, Louis Bovard, Maison Carré, Merlot, Petite Arvine, Pinot Noir, President Wilson Hotel, Räuschling, sommelier, Swiss grape varieties, Swiss wines app, the Face of Swiss Wine, Vinea

Zap! Ticino sommelier’s speedy champagne uncorking

03/11/2014 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland’s Mirko Rainier has just entered the Guinness World Records , reports Swiss public broadcaster RTS (you won’t yet find him officially listed there), for uncorking 47 bottles of champagne in one minute, using a saber. Rainier, sommelier and manager of the Atenaeo del vino restaurant in Mendrisio, canton Ticino, carried out […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: champagne cork and sword, Guinness World Record, Mendrisio, Mirko Rainier, sommelier, Swiss wine, Ticino

Sending wine back in a restaurant

10/05/2014 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

David Lynch, sommelier and Bon Appetit writer, suggests that you should send back a wine if you don’t like what you ordered in a restaurant where a sommelier helped you decide, even if there is nothing wrong with it. For me, this sounds very American, in the spirit of buying and returning clothes just because […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: restaurant, returning wine, sommelier

Art, including Picasso, worth 1/2 million dollars found at ex-sommelier’s home

16/07/2011 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Police in New Jersey in the US have found 11 stolen artworks, including a Picaosso etching, in a Hoboken apartment. The man who has the apartment was already being held in California on $5 million bail after he was charged with stealing “Tête de Femme (Head of a Woman),” a 1965 pencil drawing […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: New Jersey, Picassos, sommelier, stolen, thefts

World Champion Pinot Noir winery in Graubuenden

02/09/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Grape variety growing rapidly in international popularity; Swiss Pinot Noirs among best Sierre, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The World Champion Pinot Noir producer is a Graubuenden winery, Weingut Donatsch Malans, for its Donatsch Pinot Noir Passion. The award, announced 2 September by the Mondial du Pinot Noir international wine competition, is given to the winery that […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Adrian Mathier, awards, Donatsch Pinot Noir Passion, Hilton, international competition, Mondial du Pinot Noir, Nouveau Salquenen, OIV, Roderick Wong, Salgesch, Salquenen, Sebastien Gavillet, Sierre, sommelier, Switzerland, U.S., Vinea, Weingut Donatsch Malans, wine, wine fair, winners, Yann Juban

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